The piece i will be informing you f is a famous piece called "Big Ben". Derain Painted in a style called fauvism for this piece of work. the colours are mixed together, they are bright and bold. The brush strokes are made to distort reality. Quite like the Morse code this art is done in dots and dashes. The colours are vibrant but still shaded. Imitationalism is very life like, "Big Ben" may remind some of a a romantic river in paris for france. It may also appear as stained glass the way dots and dashes are placed.
Big Ben portray's a exciting mood beacuse all the colours are so bright and energetic. Derain piece expresses formalism in many ways such as : colour organisation, texture and space. Colour organisation is done fantastic. The sun is the brightest point then goes darker. The green which lightens up all the bright colours make up for the buildings being so dark. Looking at this is confusing in texture the piece can be smooth or a little rough depending on what it's painted on, either paper or mosaic. There are no dull spaces which is great.
Andre Derain was born in 1880. After he was in the miliary service. Derain started exhibiting his pieces of art through 2 places. The salon de independants, Salon d' Automne. Derain and others putting there pieces was creating the movement of Fauvism. Andre Derain became ill and started losing his eyesight. In 1954 he was hit by a truck. He died from the shock at age 74.
